Thomas Pfeiffer

• Full Professorship at the NZ Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, 2012–present
• Secondary Affiliation as Adjunct Assistant Professor, Tufts University, Boston, USA, 2010–2012
• Research Scientist at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 2005–2012
• Postdoctoral Researcher at the Computational Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2003–2005
• PhD, Evolutionary Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2003
• Diploma (Biophysics), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, 1999

My main research interests are meta-science, game theory, and evolutionary biology. I am interested in the dynamics of scientific knowledge, and the impact of incentives on the reliability of claims in the scientific literature.

• Several high-impact publications covering prediction markets for large-scale replication project
• Large-scale assessment of research claims for the DARPA program “Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE)”

• Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, 2015
• Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 2014
• FQEB Prize Fellowship, 2010-2012
• Postdoctoral Fellowship at the ETH Computational Laboratory, 2003–2005
• ETH silver medal for an outstanding PhD thesis, 2004

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